Chapter 3

If anything, the house was big. It was on a wide lawn that was in need of a mowing but otherwise it was a good house. The inside was spacious and had homely feel. True to her word a few bags with some of Hinata's belongings were found in the front room of the house. The ninja assigned to carry the other babies put them in the living room and left. The entire house had Kakashi in a bad mood.

"Um, what do we do first?" Hinata asked the silent man. He turned dead eyes onto her.

Meanwhile, on the floor a little ways away, Hidan glared at the little fiends that had woken him up with repeated shoving.

"We can all understand each other, right?" Pein asked at they gave a small sign of agreement. "Good. Does anybody have any idea what happened?"

"The damn piece of trash screwed us over." Kisame raved waving his chubby blue fist. His skin was a brighter blue than it had been before.

"Kisame is a bad baby!" Tobi exclaimed and yelped when Kakuzu whacked him in the head with Zetsu's head cloth. "Kakuzu's being mean!"

"Shut up bitch." Hidan yelled

"Be quiet all of you." Pein ordered. "We don't want our 'guardians' to come get us. We have to figure out what to do. We very well might get killed."

"Play babies?"

"We are babies." Sasori growled. It was humiliating. "We can't even walk yet."

"I intend to walk by tomorrow. Then I'm going to run the next day." Itachi voiced and a few if them looked at him as if he was crazy. Who plots their developmental stages?

"Still want to be a prodigy?" Deidara mumbled and Itachi looked at him blankly. It wasn't his fault motivation helped progress.

"Being prodigies is probably the best thing to be. The sooner we're independent the sooner we can be off." Pein stated and gave a small cry when he was suddenly lifted from his sitting place along with Tobi and into a cushiony embrace.

"How do we know which one is the girl?" Kakashi asked from a little way off.

"We strip them ofcourse." Hinata answered with a slight blush.

"Oh hell no!"

Hinata shrugged.

"Can't we just ask them? They still have their brains right?" Kakashi asked and nine fingers were instantly pointed to the blue haired child with a bit of paper in her hands.

"I hadn't thought of that." Hinata said sheepishly putting the two boys down.

"Well then we can leave them in their clothes then." Kakashi

"No we can't. They still need baths." Hinata said adamantly and Kakashi glared at the back of her head as she bent to pick up another Akatsuki. "We'll split them you take five and I'll take five."

"That a-hole is not bathing me." Hidan argued already on his way to Hinata's feet.

In splitting them Hinata got Hidan, Konan, Kakuzu, Itachi and Zetsu. Kakashi was stuck with the obnoxious Tobi, the irritated Sasori, hyper Deidara, Kisame and Pein.

"What do I do now?" Kakashi asked holding a very mobile Tobi by the back of his shirt.

"Take their clothes off and bathe them." Hinata said as she walked towards the bathroom with Hidan and Zetsu in her hands and Itachi, Konan and a reluctant Kakuzu crawling behind.

"Why don't you do it? I can't bathe these little things, they'll drown." Kakashi mumbled looking at the babies at his feet.

"You will learn Kakashi sensei! You can do it!" Hinata said loudly from the bathroom. Kakashi sighed at the door before turning to the four at his feet and Tobi in his hands.

Kakashi took the babies to another bathroom and filled the tub with water then began placing the babies in the tub. Tobi, Sasori, Kisame and Pein were lifted in with questioning looks in their eyes. Kakashi reached for Deidara who refused to be taken up and started screaming. Just as sudden as the screaming started it stopped. Kakashi smiled behind his mask as he bent again and Deidara smiled as well, then a fountain of vomit flowed from his mouth and onto Kakashi's face.

Pein screamed, "Attah!" and they scrambled and tumbled over each other to climbed over the edge of the tub. Suddenly Kakashi found himself being slapped repeatedly on his legs. He moved to brush them off and step away when his big toe erupted in pain. He looked down to see Kisame smiling a predatory grin around his toe.

"Get off me." he growled grabbing the blue boy and prying his mouth open. He put that one back in the tub before grabbing two others and putting them in then grabbed the other two. He glared at all five of them in the tub and put a hand to the headband that was covering his left eye. "I WILL use it."

Sasori gave a disinterested grunt and chose to splash the water instead. Kisame was content to try and swim the best he could in the tub. Deidara glared defiantly at him. Tobi began to splash with Sasori who shoved him away irritable only for him to come back anyway.

"Off." Pein prompted raising his hands. The others seemed to suddenly realise that while they were in the water they still had their makeshift clothes on.

Kakashi groaned but complied anyway realising how stupid it was even if he didn't want to do this. They were just so small... but they were still S-class criminals… who were now babies. What exactly could they do now? Were they capable of any high power jutsu? Were they even capable of jutsu? Only one way to find out right?

Kakashi stared at the playful bunch for a moment. He leaned on the edge of the tub to look at them closely. They were naked in the rub sliding around and giggling like proper children their size and assumed age. Did the justu affect their personality? What exactly was going on in that brain? Was that why they would needed Inochi?

"I have a question." Kakashi said and they all looked up at him shocked, as if they forgot he was even there. "Have you tried jutsu?"

They paused for a moment.

"Why didn't I think of that?" Pein mused. Kisame was the first to start his hand signs in a clumsy manner.

"Suiton: Taihoudan no jutsu!" Kisame shouted after the final hand seals/signs but of course all Kakashi heard was babbling. The effect was none existent, the expected jet of water did not appear. Their was silence at the failure until Deidara began to roll in laughter.

"You suck!" Deidara screamed. Kisame immediately punched him in the face.

"If he failed, we will most likely fail as well." Pein stated and they all agreed. Tobi was oddly silent. "What about kekkai genkai?"

"Mine's fine." Deidara said holding a hand out. The mouth in his palm opened and closed with a flick of it's tongue. He suddenly smirked. "Do you think Itachi's is ok?"

"Probably not since it's a major chakra depleter." Sasori grumbled

All through this Kakashi was listening to the babbling of the five babies. From what he could get it was a serious conversation. If they were having a serious conversation then they could understand each other and he couldn't understand them. That could pose a problem if they decided to organise a form of revolt or escape. They would be able to communicate with each other without the prospect of their plans being found out. It didn't help that they kept their intelligence. Who knew what they could come up with.

Without really thinking about it Kakashi pulled Sasori away and began bathing him. Soon he was done with Sasori and moving on to the others. By the time he was finished Pein was standing with Tobi, both of which were wrapped in their own towels. Tobi was playing with Sasori's wet hair to the red head's dismay and the other two were sitting nicely in their towels on the floor. Kakashi on the other hand was soaked.

"Out we go." Kakashi prompted as he held the door open for them. Pein and Tobi managed to walk out on their own albeit wobbly. Kakashi picked up Deidara and Sasori while Kisame wrapped himself around his leg.

Meanwhile Hinata wasn't having an easier time. Itachi was a well behaved and independent baby. Hidan was always trying to crawl to her. Kakuzu always pulled Hidan away to wail on him. Zetsu and Konan were also well behaved. By the end on the bath they were all clean and ready to get dressed. But they had a problem, they had no clothes.

"Kakashi-sensei, you have to go shopping." Hinata said staring at Kakashi when he stepped in with the rest of the Akatsuki. .

"Me? why can't you go? I wouldn't know The first thing to do." Kakashi pointed out. Hinata looked thoughtful for a moment.

"You have a point... I guess I will have to go. You have to stay with The babies then... Keep them out of trouble. I will be back as soon as I can. Bye". She grabbed her purse and ran out the door before Kakashi could say anything else.

"I guess it's just us then." Kakashi said looking down on the the babies staring up at him.

"Men... and Konan." Pein started giving the girl a gracious nod. "We have to revolt."

"Hell yea!"

"We must attack the one eye!" Pein continued to cheers of agreement.

"I have heard that Kisame took a bite out of him." White Zetsu stated only to be interrupted by the black half. "I Want my piece too. Especially that girl, that very fat, succulent chest part."

"F off man! Those tits are mine!" Hidan shouted viciously. "I touched them first!"

"You don't own anything." Kakuzu warned slapping him in the head. "Don't get attached to her."

"I ain't attached to that itch. I just want her boobs. Those things are the thing of dreams." Hidan shot back shoving Kakuzu. Only to have him shove him back. Soon they were rolling around on the floor.

"Anyway." Pein prompted. "let's get to work. Here he comes."

Kakashi wasn't stupid so he noticed immediately that the little Akatsuki were being suspiciously silently. While it might seem normal for them to just sit watching Hidan and Kakuzu fight, it wasn't right. They were plotting something. Just what it was he didn't know. He didn't have to wait long to find out though. No sooner had he thought it than Zetsu was suddenly on his leg sinking his teeth into the flesh through his pants. In less than the two seconds it took to pry the beast off his leg he was surrounded by the group. Some were crawling up his legs, kicking him, punching him and crawling up his arms. he was just getting to the blue haired girl latched onto his chest when he noticed the Uchiha genius standing on the table he was practically bent beside. He realised too late what the boy was up to. By then he was already in the air barrelling towards him and collided solidly with the side of Kakashi's head feet first. The how of it all was lost on Kakashi as he fell to the floor. This was going to be a long wait until Hinata came back.

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The trip to the clothes store began with Hinata being stopped by one of the ANBU from earlier. She politely told him where she was going. He promptly handed her a signed slip from the Hokage for purchases to be charged to the village/Hokage account. It had to be returned immediately after the trip. He went with her.

Hinata and the ANBU had some trouble finding a store that sold baby's clothing but eventually did and set to work finding suitable clothes. There were a few dark jumpers and a lot of brightly coloured ones. She was assuming sizes but she thought they would fit anyway. She picked up packs of diapers/pampers as well. When they finally left the store, their arms were filled with bag.

Hinata was 95% sure the elite ANBU was disgruntled by the amount of shopping for baby things he was doing. He probably had never imagined this to be happening to him. She hadn't imagined she would be taking care of ten kids either. Least of all with Kakashi. This was like mayhem wrapped in a bunch. She saw real mayhem however when she returned to the old Hatake place. There were a few broken pieces of furniture an over-turned couched and a thoroughly pissed Hatake. In the centre of it all, were ten bound babies cocooned and trapped in their towels with various expressions of hate, indifference and anger.

"What happened?" Hinata asked dropping her bags and fidgeting between helping the babies and getting on Kakashi's bad side by helping them.

"Little hellions they are." Kakashi answered. He was still glaring at them. Hinata finally decided to approach the babies and picked up the first one she could reach, Zetsu. Hidan started crying and trying to get free instantly ("Get that bastard away from your boobs! They're mine!"). The others naturally rolled their eyes or ignored him. That was until Zetsu sunk his teeth into Hinata. Hinata yelped surprised and Kakashi was instantly pulling him off her. Hidan was furious (those were his boobs!), Kisame and Sasori giggled, Deidara was soon rolling in gurgles of laughter, Itachi and Pein smirked, while Kakuzu and Tobi watched off passively.

When it was over Hinata dug into the bags she had brought before looking at the now gagged Zetsu. "I didn't want to do this but since you bit me, you get the cow suit."

There was a pause when she pulled out the black and white cow suit and a small cow bell. Suddenly Hidan, Deidara, Kisame and Tobi were laughing more; Pein, Kakuzu, Sasori and konan were smirking and Kakashi was sniggering. even Itachi had a small smile. Zetsu began to struggle in Kakashi's grip while Hinata approached him. After lots of struggling and wailing Zetsu sat sulking in black and white. The little bell was tied around him through the belt hole of the suit.

"From now on, anyone who misbehaves gets the cow suit." Hinata said. The Akatsuki gasped in horror clearly thinking about themselves in the suit and they did not like it. They would make hideous cows. Suddenly their eyes were drooping and not two seconds later they were asleep. Hinata stared at them in shock. Panic sunk into her quickly.

"Calm down Hinata. I just put them to bed." Kakashi said when he noticed her worried look. "We've all had a long day"

"I suppose." Hinata said after a thoughtful pause. Kakashi nodded with a sigh. The young Akatsuki were a handful with a vendetta against him. "Where do we put them?"

"Good question."